Month: September 2013

Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013 Nominations Begin Tomorrow: $1000 Prize

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment

Nominations will open tomorrow September 10th for the 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. The 2012 award process involved several steps and included an online polling element that had some influence on the ultimate decision. You can see the voting on the list of finalists (who were selected from about 30 total nominees) here. Ultimately, super …

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Stemotoxic: a new, important word for stem cell gurus to know

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment

In a 2009 article on stem cells in the journal Stem Cells, Deconstructing Stem Cell Tumorigenicity: A Roadmap to Safe Regenerative Medicine, I coined a new word: stemotoxic It’s a useful word on a number of levels for the stem cell field. What does “stemotoxic” mean? I hope it is fairly intuitive in that it means something …

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Japan Aiming For a Commanding Position on New Stem Cells

December 22, 2023 / By / 3 Comments
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Stem cell technology is poised to wow the world with biomedical advances in the coming decades and Japan wants to lead the way. They want to forge ahead particularly with applications that focus on a relatively new kind of stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells. Japanese researcher, Shinya Yamanaka, first reported production …

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Applications of 3D Printing in Stem Cells & Bioengineering

February 1, 2021 / By / 8 Comments
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Imagine a world in which doctors send microscopic biological machines made by 3D printing—biobots—inside our bodies to heal disease and fix injuries. A few decades ago, this kind of technology was only manifesting as the fanciful gadgets of science fiction movies. For example, the 1966 movie ‘Fantastic Voyage’ featured miniaturized objects performing a range of …

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Stem Cells Will Reduce Need for Research Animals

February 1, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
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Stem cell research is exciting on many levels and provides real hope for treating an assortment of serious diseases and injuries in the future, but another potential positive of stem cells such as iPS cells is their use in producing modeling human tissues and organs to model diseases. A third positive, but often overlooked potential …

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What would you do with an extra brain?

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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Let’s putting on our “thinking caps”….er, extra brains, get our geek on, and have some fun imagining where stem cell technology may lead us in the coming century. Unhappy with the one brain you have? Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a 2nd one too? A new one? Researchers have grown mini brain-like structures from …

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